ALCS Game Five Recap

The Angels live to fight another day after an exciting 7-6 victory over the Yankees on Wednesday night. This was the third truly memorable game in what so far has been an interesting series.The Yankees threatened early and appeared to have loaded the bases with no outs but a 3-2 pitch to Teixeira was called strike three and a promising inning fizzled from there. In the bottom of the inning the Angels hacked away at A.J. Burnett and put four runs on the board.For the next several innings nothing much happened as neither team threatened. The Yankees had a threat going in the sixth but Lackey pitched his way out of that and entered the seventh with the 4-0 lead in place.The top of the 7th went poorly for the Angels as the Bombers loaded the bases with one out. Mike Scoscia had a decision to make and he elected to stay with John Lackey to face the lefty Johnny Damon. Damon flew to left holding the runners and Lackey was one out away from escaping.Curiously Scoscia then lifted Lacke...